Below is a request from our ally organizations in West Virginia. Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is encouraging our members to go and support our friends and allies in West Virginia as they struggle to build a safer, more prosperous and better West Virginia.

If you you have any questions or if you are interested in car-pooling with other KFTC members please either email me at kevin@kftc.org or call me at 606-335-0764.

And for more detailed information visit the It's Getting Hot In Here blog here.

Take Care,
Kevin Pentz

We need you to stand with us to save Coal River Mountain.

Join us on Dec. 7 at 2pm at the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection headquarters in Charleston, WV for a rally and protest to save Coal River Mountain.

Massey Energy is actively blasting and mining on Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia. The blasting is taking place only a few hundred feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 9 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above the Coal River Valley.  If the dam bursts, it is estimated that almost 1000 people who live, work and go to school would lose their lives.

Coal River Valley residents are doing everything they can to protect their homes and their health, but blasting on coal river mountain is something that affects all of us and is something we can all fight to stop. Massey energy is investing in the energy of the past; stopping mountaintop removal coal mining and saving Coal River Mountain is a critical step in putting the country on a path to our clean energy future.

Studies have shown that, if left intact, the ridges on Coal River Mountain have the highest and most productive potential for wind power generation.  Research by the Coal River Wind Project <http://www.coalriverwind.org/> has shown that a wind farm on top of the mountain could generate approximately 1.2% of West Virginia’s total energy needs and create at least 300 jobs in the area, while also generating long-term tax revenues.  Every day that blasting occurs the clean energy potential of Coal River Mountain is obliterated.

We need you to join us in standing with the residents of the Coal River Valley, and to help ensure that our clean energy future is not lost one mountain at a time. 

Please join us on Dec. 7 at 2pm at the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection headquarters in Charleston, WV for a rally and protest as we rally and protest to save Coal River Mountain.

For the mountains,